[svk-users] How to delete a mirrored repository permanently to release disk capacity?

Wang James jameswangenator at gmail.com
Fri Mar 26 06:00:17 EDT 2010


What a pity!

It seems that SVK put the all the mirrored repositories into ONE SVN storage
path and database even the mirrored source are different, so we can not
delete the part of them thus cause others mirrored repositories can't work
normal.

Seems a shortcoming. will the author modify it?
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2010/3/26 Su Norman <normansu.pp at gmail.com>

> SVK internally uses svn's repository for its version control , usually it
> locates on ~/.svk/local .
>
> If you delete any mirrored repository, it just delete something in the new
> version of SVK.
>
> It is impossible to release disk capacity unless you re-initallize whole
> repository.
>
> 2010/3/26 Wang James <jameswangenator at gmail.com>
>
>> How to delete a mirrored repository permanently to release disk capacity?
>>
>> I had execute the command :
>>
>>            svk  delete //svk-repo1
>>
>> but it seems that there is not any disk capacity reducing on SVK 'root'
>> path?
>>
>> I found there are many repositories numbered in the path
>> '$SVKROOT\local\db\revs' ,but i wonder if deleting it directly will cause
>> the other repositories will not run well?:
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>
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